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When and How to Reset Mac SMC (System Management Controller)

Maybe in the for-pay Developer boards they have more insight as to the inner workings of the products. And most will be covered by NDAs.

And I'm not talking about the ones at the bottom of the ASC main page. Talking about the ones at Developer.Apple.com, currently still down after a security breach.

That's exactly why you will not find satisfaction for your "question".

Here you will only find regular users. People who use the products and make by with whatever dreck Apple puts out as "documentation". Some have gained more insight after years of trial and error.

Developers who pay Apple to have access to internal documents and, in some cases, the engineers who design the products, can get to know how they were designed and why. Needed to be able to develop the software being produced for sale. But since much of that infornation helps Apple differentiate from other computers, access is restricted and covered by a Non Disclosure Agreement.

People and companies who pay to be registered as Apple Developers have their own portal and forums at developer.apple.com

I do not thorougly understand your question but SMC is the subsystem that manages the power, both from battery and charger.

If your battery is in trouble (what trouble? - please, place as much info you can otherwise will be hard to help you and many may ignore ypour help) try to calibrate it (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1490) and if you don't get result the perform an SMC reset (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964) followed by a PRAM reset (press and hold CMD+ALT+P+R atstartup until you hera at least a couple of "boing"'s restarts. The leave and let the Mac boot.

Cheers

Simon

The problem is that one is unlikely to know what caused a problem, only that there now is a problem. Resetting the SMC may help if the problem you are trying to fix is caused by anything in the system that the SMC is used to control. The SMC itself is a chip controlled by its own firmware. The SMC chip itself does not cause a problem unless there is a bug in the firmware - not very likely.

If you have to reset the SMC to correct a problem but the problem is recurring, then you have to look at what may be going on with your software that is causing the recurring issue - corrupt file, corrupt cache file, etc.

Thus, we don't have a definitive answer for you. Perhaps this is a problem created by Windows since OS X isn't running when you say the problem arises.

A bad battery can cause the SMC to throttle the CPU clock speed because the AC adaptor cannot provide sufficient power to run the computer especially if the CPU is stressed. Windows cannot control how the computer's firmware operates, and how that might impact on Windows itself. So, yes, it can be an issue associated with a dying battery and/or the computer running Windows.

I only do it to boot comp back up when it doesnt

Talk about sinility. I read that as "boot camp." 😁